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what about giga intellivision?

no nwc took place during the summer and fall of 1990, smb 3 was released in february of 1990

in the day, i enjoyed the T&E soft golf simulations. Waialae Country Club, Pebble Beach Golf Links, and Wicked 18 are three different games, but they are just 3 different courses with the exact same gameplay. (i believe they also released Augusta National in japan) but these three games are extremely slow, and have been done on other systems

to make a good "best of" list, we should probably include all of the candidates the op stated that the packins had to be available at launch, so this is the best list i can come up with from my head Fairchild Channel 5 - Tennis/Hockey (built in) Atari VCS - Combat Magnavox Odyssey 2 - Speedway/Spin-out/Cryptologic Mattel Intellivision - Las Vegas Poker and Blackjack Bally Astrocade - Bally BASIC Atari 5200 - Super Breakout Colecovision - Donkey Kong Nintendo Entertainment System - Gyromite and Duck Hunt Sega Master System - Hang-On/Safari Hunt Atari 7800 - Pole Position II NEC Turbo Graphx - Keith Courage in the Alpha Zones Sega Genesis - Altered Beast Super Nintendo Entertainment System - Super Mario World Sega CD - Sherlock Holmes Consulting Detective and Sega Arcade Classics 4-in-1 Sega Saturn - Virtua Fighter Sony PlayStation - Battle Arena Toshinden Nintendo Wii - Wii Sports Nintendo Game Boy - Tetris Atari Lynx - California Games Sega Game Gear - Columns am i missing any?

A+ - purchaed some saturn and genesis games from the marketplace

purchased an Indy Heat genesis repro without a hitch

A+ : bought 14 magazines, everything was shipped promptly and items arrived as described

gamecubes are cheaper than dirt and pretty compact.

the first japanese game i played on an american console was bare knuckles for the genesis. this rental store had japanese games and cut the plastic off the carts so they could be played on US consoles. they also had a super famicom before the snes was released. exciting times but the US/Japan divide was not in my universe during the NES's heyday

you have to remove the convertor to play genesis carts but the convertor is basically just an oversized cart. there are no cables, power adapters or anything to attach when you want to use it.

is it Q*bert's Qubes?

simple enough question, wikipedia (not a perfect source) states there were 12 launch titles for the colecovision. a google search of :colecovision launch games" yields nothing. so what were the 12 launch games, and what were the best selling games for the system other than donkey kong?

real famicoms are getting cheap, id keep the cart and ditch the system

hardware doesnt sell video game consoles, video games sell video game consoles. if by some miracle sega had found a way to release gta iii on the dreamcast in the fall of 2001, the game wouldve changed.

microsoft and sony are in big time trouble, the tepid sales of the 360 and ps3 are not helping out their company lines.

To be fair, though, that's ALL systems. It always takes a year for any new system to have a 'killer game' for it, that people are going to rush out and buy the system just for that one game. On top of that, it takes about a year for a system to build up a good library of games and for the bugs to be worked out, perhaps even a price drop. The Dreamcast never had that 'killer game'. its not all systems, the NES had Super Mario Bros out of the gate, the Wii had Wii Sports out of the gate. the Dreamcast did have the most successful launch of all time (until the PS2), mostly on the back of NFL 2K. Had there not been an NFL 2K, the dreamcast would be in the same league with the saturn.

backward compatibility wouldve helped the japanese market, but it wouldnt have been much of a feature in the US.

for the dreamcast to be a success, it had to be a hail mary pass. but it ended up far short of the goal line. the ps2 did not really take off gamewise until grand theft auto iii was released in late 2001... a year after the ps2 launched. up until that point, the ps2 lineup was pretty suspect. its main selling point was the dvd player. if sega had somehow landed gta iii, things wouldve been different.

i did that for awhile in the 90s, but they end up looking like crappy rental copies. cardboard genesis boxes suck, but the sleeve design is still better than the traditional nes/snes lid design.

i would love to see a port of zookeeper or anteater

I think all of it is for the character. His act on Comedy Central's The Gong Show was different. His speech was unslurred, no glasses, clean cut hair & perfect speech articulation. That and in his act he banged baking pans against his head going DUH DUH DUH. http://youtu.be/7Yie5_CWsoo i dont want to be the guy that feigns taking offense to the characterization of a gamer, but the act is a bit obnoxious. he has his moments though, particularly when he interrupted g4s coverage of e3

how much of the character (the aspergers, the speech impediment, etc) is real and how much is done for the character?

atari 2600 sold - 30 million nes sold - 60 million c64 sold - 17 million not quite

thanks to everyone that stopped by my modest table (front room by the door to the back room), i made a nice little profit and promptly spent it on more stuff... but my boxes were lighter by the end of the show and i didnt lose any money so the show was a win for me.

basic answer - the winner would be the first company to release super mario bros on their console. the more complex questions/answers - which company would have been in the best position to land smb? colecovision made a mint from licensing donkey kong, atari saw this success and got the rights to publish mario bros. could mattel sneak in and obtain the rights to smb? they were hungry for arcade licenses and took full advantage of their rights to burgertime. nintendo was shopping the famicom around for a us distributor. would any of the companies be willing to discontinue their own systems for the right to distribute japanese hardware? or would smb be competently ported to a home grown next gen console? could the 7800, or intellivision iii/iv handle it? the colecovision and sega sg1000 were very similar, when sega developed the backward compatible mark iii (master system), could that have been a path for coleco to pursue? imagine super mario bros on master system hardware.